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 | "We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of
this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the
lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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| "Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is boring without
it." | |
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Found in the topic Truth.
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| "You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can
make yourself do right in spite of your feelings." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the
life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough
for this life. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to
make it worth being born, myself a human being." | |
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Found in the topic Needs.
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| "I don"t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your
mind must know it has got to get down to work." | |
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Found in the topic Accomplishment.
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| "When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle,
then evil men prevail." | |
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Found in the topic Evil.
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| "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can
be recalled and perhaps remedied." | |
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Found in the topic Error.
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| "One faces the future with one?s past." | |
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Found in the topic Future.
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| "We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as
from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps
more." | |
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Found in the topic Author.
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| "Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of
imagination." | |
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Found in the topic Illusions.
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| "Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart
as much as blame." | |
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Found in the topic Praise.
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| "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they
attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after
generation." | |
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Found in the topic Impossible.
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| "The secret of joy in work is contained in one word ? excellence. To
know how to do something well is to enjoy it." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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